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o i or diffidence, I believe the Church of Ireland is the very ground. wh ch I should choose, and particularly so when I remember the doc trine which the Noble Lord has laid down with respect to the Church and to ecclesiastical property, that if every Member of that Church were swept from the face of Ireland, we ought still to have its revenues undiminished.—(Hear, hear, hear.) The Noble Lord has charged that my Noble Frieud who opened the debate, and her Majesty's Government generally, with the intention to entrap the unwary; he has said that a very Noble Friend has left the House quite in the dark with reshot to the terms and the principles on which thd resolutions and the measures to be grounded on them may stand ; and the Honourable Baronet, who has moved the amendraent has, in the course of his speech, also changed those resolutions with a desire to m rssfy the the House. I own that I think, that as to the attempt to entrap the House into any great danger that the trap baiting has been used on the other side of the House.—(Hear.) And now to touch on what the Noble Lord has made not an immaterial part of this debate— the position or order in which the measures have been brought forward. I distinctly remember being in my place when my Noble Friend, not admitting the dependence of which one measure had upon the other, yet wishing to avoid a party contest upon a point which could lead to no beneficial issue, he declared his willingness to give the discussion tithes a precedence over that on the Munici pal Bill for Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) But as a charge has been made of a disposition to entrap votes upon both sides of the House, and to recommend the measure respecting Tithes to one party by mani festing a disposition for the appropriation principle while the other was to be deluded by pointing to the strict meaning of the Words in the resolution, I feel that although my Noble Friend has Already come very clearly to the main principles of the resolutions, yet I think, for the purpose of not having any room for cavil, nor allowing any to resort to subterfuge, I shall state shortly the drift and pith of the resolutions, and then come to the question whether the House will do well to have neglected the resolutions of 1835, and proceed to rescind the resolution of 1835.—(Hear.) I believe that none can be disposed tp dissent from this proposition, that it would be most desirable to put an enci to all disputes between Clergymen and their parishioners. This must ,Ize admitted to be desirable in all cases; but still more immedi ately desicabte when the parties differ in creed from each other, and when that w;:ich is the subject of collision has been the prolific source for so long a time of disputes and animosities. We propose by OUT reigiutions, and by the measures intended to be founded on them, to effect this, and to Impose the liability which is still borne by the occupies of the land on the owner, subject, however, to a deduc tion from the full claim for the new liability which is imposed upon )aim. We think, and we have reason to apprehend, that some of the igndlords oistcct to this plan, while their objection is mixed up with the fatting of the Irish people against the payment of tithes. We pro pose to rensedy this by putting the tithes, as far as either the owners or occupiers are eencerneel, entirely out of sight, and by making the pay ments which the landlords have to pay In lieu of composition for tithes, and for which, of course, they seek to be reimbursed from their tenants — lay making all these payments appticalde to purposes in no way connected with any subject of popular irritation or disceptent ; but, on the contrary, eniyapplicable to purposes in which every class of the population, and, most of all, the humble, are closely interested and concerned.-e(Cheers ) So far as riepects the operation of our plan, as fp* as money payments gee concerned, and as concerns the owners and occupiers. And be it observed that OtSa plan substantially differs from any of the preceding for the last three or tour years both of the present and of the past Goveriausent.S.—(Hear, hear.) Then With respect to 1 the payments made to the giergy. As the resoletions At pre sent stand, and as they were introduced by my Noble Friend, It 'ls proposed that the clergy sbett 'active their allotted in come, seven-tenths of the title composition, or 70 per cent. of the last three Bills that have been introduced into Parliament, as long as they think proper, from the public Treasury ; and this, to me no little asto. nishment, and to the reversal of all my previous calculations and ex pectations, has been made the chief grievance of the charge, the main rock of °trance, through which the Opposition and the clamour of the Church against the present scheme has been raised, because the future annual income of the clergy is no more to be paid by reluctant land lords or resisting tenants, but instead of this they are to receive it by punctual dividends from the Consolidated Fund of the empire, upon which by positive course of law it is proposed to be settled.—(Cheers.) But we do not stop here. After what has fallen from my Noble Friend with respect to the delusion, the utter ignorance with which it is sought to represent that this payment is, on the face of it, one to be made by annual payments from the Yates of this House out of the estimates of the current year—(Loud cheering from the Opposition)-1 am surprised at the statements contained in the petition of the clergy of the diocese of Armagh, who state that these resolutions will strip the Church of her possessions, and reduce the clergy to the condition of pensioners, whose claims will be liable to be yearly investigated under the specious pretence of a public saving.— (Cheers from the Opposition.) The Right Honourable and Learned Gentleman (Mr. Shaw, we believe) cheers that expression.—(Continued cheers from the same quarter.) I must say that I think that the clergy of Armagh might have derived from etilinspiration of the Primate him self—l should have thought that between CNSTch and State they would have derived more precise and correct information on this subject. But Is this indeed- a state of gross hardship, of bitter injustice, of degrada. tion, and of coercion under which it is proposed to subject the clergy of Ireland to the insult of receiving a prompt, full, and certain receipt of their lawful dues from the public treasury—is this state one under which we propose to leave them, without the prospect of a termination or the hope of redress ? The plan which we introduce enacts that in the Case of all future incumbents of Church livings, and we make it optional in the case of all present incumbents, sub ject only to such limitations as may seem advisable to secure the easy reversion and investment of so large an amount of money—we make it optional for present incumbents, and enact that in the case of all future incumbents the state shall redeem by payments from the Consolidated Fund, and shall invest the purchise.money either in land, or such pub lic resources as the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, or such other body as it shall be reckoned right to appoint for the aid and benefit of the Clergy, shall think most advantageous, desirable, and lucrative. And what are the terissee on which we repose to make this investment ? We propose that the mdwey shall be redeemed at sixteen years' purchase. This is not a propositioSt. I boldly contend, which can be considered un. fairly pressing on the Clergy', or one dictated by a spirit inimical to the interests of the Church of Ire!end.—(Hear, hear.) My Noble Friend (Lord John Russell) has alluded to the opinion formerly expressed by the Noble Lord whom 1 succeeded in the debate, an opinion expressed in the Committee which sat on this subject in the year 1832, long before this vexations question of appropriation was raised. (Cheers, and a laugh.) What was the report of that Committee, and what were their recommendations ? The report contained these wor;ls :—" There seems then, no alternative but that the State should lend its aid, and having purchased the rights of the clergy, become itself the proprietor and collector of the perpetual assessment sub stituted for tithe. If this be admitted, the actual amount of the tithe now collected does not affect the progress of the argument, and, without any attrnpt at accuracy, it may be taken for granted that the gross compositiav, if it extended over the whole of Ireland, would be abOut 600,000/. The composition being about 600,0001. if sold at sixteen years' purchase, would produce a sum of 9,600,000/. The question, then, to be ask'd is, whether it would be for the in terest of the landlords or of the Slate to purchase the perpetual land tax of 600,0001 at sixteen years' pit: chase. Supposing that none of the landlords should redeem, and that the whole arrangement must be conducted by the Government, the sum requir:d to be raised would be, as before, 9,600,0001. This sum would be raised Government on still more advantageous terms than by the landlord, prot.;.44Y at 3i per cent., leaving a gross surplus annually of 264,000/, 5ub.1.7.4 tO the charges of collection." The Noble Lord (Stanley) was not then ,leiree so alarmed at a surplus as at present.—(Cheers.) The Noble Lord did not then contend that any provision should be made for the Clergy on a footing more advantageous than ours. We propose the investment, n be it observed, of the reduced rent-charge of 70 per cent., hut of t original 100 per cent. at sixteen years' purchase. Then, in 183 his _Hon. and Gallant Friend the Member for Launceston (Sir H. Ha dinge), who then held the position in which I now unworthily stn brought I.'rward his plan for the regulation of tithes in Ireland, a what did hi ;ay ? He said—" To purchase 1001. of composition under the Bill which a .eropose to introduce, assuming it to be taken at twenty require the sum of 1,500/., while by the Bill of years' purchase, it Wi ll r last year it would have .. - equired at the lowest rate 1,6501. The highest price for the purchase for :.he redemption of 1001. of composition, would have been 1,8501., and the avere,tte 1,7501., so that by my Bill the land. lord will, on the average, gain 250/. On the redemption of every 1001. of composition, at an addition of 21 yeZts' purchase, in addition to the premium of 25 per cent, Thus it appears that the Honourable and Gallant Baronet intended to make his terms e't redemption 15 years' purchase, whereas we propose 16 years. After thii, I must say, I did think that if any attack were to be made upon us, it wotild have been on very difterent grounds, and from a very opposite quarter. We might expect to hear objections raised in the debates on this propositiort, that we were doing more for the Church than you yourselves, by your oven erg meets and statements, and principles laid ground for.—(Long and continued cheering.) We might be told that we were giving up Is principle, for which we have battled ; and, if that cry shall- be raised, I can only say that I shall be happy to meet it when it is. In this explanation of the conduct of the Go vernment, I merely wish to state that having once plainly laid down that principle ,which we think proper, expedient, and just—having done what in us lay, not once, not twice, but in repeated instances, and in a series of Bills that would have effected that principle—having .done that, I am willing to admit, in the face of and in spite of much opposition, and much public, inconvenience, we have been willing to try, after so much of failure, which we admit and deplore—we were willing to try whether, by making a more comprehensive change of the ex isting system, by taking a wider range, by removing every thing con nected with the payment of tithes out of sight, both of the occupier and of the owner of the land, by removing every thing connected with the collection of that obnoxious impost from the soil of Ireland— after doing what we fondly and credulously thought would have been an encouragement and an invitation held out from the highest and most illustrious quarter opposite, we were willing to try whether we could not, by the measure which my Noble Friend has laid on the table, preduce a termination of the present unhappy state of irritation and suspends, and place the question on a testing which, although it might not be wholly satisfactory to any party, should nevertheless be generally ac. quiescent in; and if we had been met with anything of the spirit of fair compromise and the desire of conciliation, would have effected the settlement of this question, stud would have restored the country to that state of peace and comfort for wleich in this debatable territory the com batants have been so long sighing.— tCheers.) I proteit in the face of man, and still more solemnly in the face God, that this was our simple and single object in bringing forward the measure which we have laid upon your table, although we know that in doing that we run the chance of exposing ourselves to much of obloquy and misrepresentation. The Noble Lord opposite (Lord Stanley) taunts us with seekiiSti concealment and endeavouring to entrap the unwary, and with using misrepre. sentations. As the resolutions stand at prescnt, 1 am sure any one who has given his attention to the subject will see that they snake no pretence of asserting the principle of appropriation, because we did hope, in the face of the difficulties that en. vironed the question, and in the hope of obtaining a satisfactory solution aSul termination of it, that when we removed the cause of irri tation from t:tet sore place we would ensure a corresponding benefit; but the amendment ed . the Hon. Baronet has given a new turn to the whole question, and to our entire course.—(Cheers from both sides of the House.) The Noble Lord the Member for Lancashire (Lard Stanley) says if you do not by your measure carry out the principle of appro priation, why not consetia to rescind the resolutions ?—(Hear, hear, from the Opposition benches.) ,Sly Noble Fricnd (Lord John Rus sell) has quoted many instances in which resolutions were still allowed to remain on the journals of the gouse, and were not considered as interfering with subsequent measures C..'ken in defiance of them. There are other cases in which this house, !..ti adopting the amend rnents made by the other House, have shown 4 isetr willingness to pass a Tithe Bill for Ireland, without asserting the priociple of appro priation, and without any effort to. get rid of the obnoxious elauses (Hear.) It is difficult to hit the taste and fancy of the gentlemen opposite. When we bring forward a Bill with the appropria our principle they revolt from it—they would sooner perish than pas; it; and when we bring forward a Bill without appropriation they m et , they will not consider—they will first make us eat our own wore ss .:4,2;leers from the Opposition.) They show as plainly as ever yet was sh own : ! tat their object is not the p eaceable and harmonious set_ dement of the queall;°n— (Loud Cheers from the Ministerial benches)— a questi on w hi ch agitat e . ' and d"tracti and convulses the country, which exposes the population of ;:. €4,ojons, and too many eland to sanguire7 f Y clergymen to the most pitiable IL the amend estitution, But 444 amend ment of the Hon. Baronet propose to do ? It is not me:7 l ." 9 FPP ind a solemn act of a ismer Parliament, it je not merely to nullify r:.,4‘41- map declaration of opinion in which the great majority of those on this side of the House concurred ; but it is to make an admission, as neces sarily must be done, that those resolutions were founded on wrong grounds and were inspired by vicious principles.—(Cheers from the Op position.) It is, in other words, to proclaim that the Church of Ire land with its present duties and its present revenues rests upon a foot ing that is perfectly just, proper, and expedient; that it would be impolicy to disturb and sacrilege to diminish i t. I =Ls beg leave to ask the House, as this question has been forged upon I us by those who consider themselves the friends and the steady supporters of the Church, as we have sometimes the courtesy to call them, and they have the simplicity to believe themselves.--A laugh,) I must ask what is this Church, what are those duties, and what are the revenues, to assert the infallibility of which we are called upon, forsaking practical steps, into which the Hon. Baronet who moved the amendment confessed that he had not condescended to look, for the sake of committing ourselves, this useless and abstract demonstration ? I do not wish, and lam far from intending, after the many occasions upon which I have been called upon to go into this question—l am, I sar, far from intending to open the whole case of the Church of Ireland; but as the inquiry has been put to me, I must remind the House that, from the population returns to which the Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman (Mr. Lefroy) referred, it appears that the population of Ireland, at the last enumeration, was 7,943,940. Of these the Established Church num. berg 852,664 persons—or Ido not mind giving a million. The Presbyte rians number 642,356; the other Protestant Dissenters amount to 21,808 persons, and the Roman Catholics number 6,427,712 persons. And what is the distribution of the incomes of the several persua sions ? The Established Church, of 852,664 persons, has at present an annual income amounting to, in round numbers, 800,0001.; the Pres byterian Church, with its 642,336 persons, receives between 20,000/. and 30,0001., whilst the remaining portion, the 6,427,712 Roman Ca tholics, do not receive a single sliver of the public money.--(Hear, hear.) It is on behalf of the infallibility of this specimen of established polity that the chivalry of the opposite benches is to be called out to check the progress of legislation, and to encumber and blast the hopes of an amicable arrangement.—(Loud cheers.) In consequence of ditli. culties which we are unable to surmount, and from a desire of doing that which appears to promise a happier state of things, we no not in. sist on the principle of appropriation, but we refuse our assent to the amendment of the Honourable Baronet, because we think it lays down an unfounded claim and establishes an improper inference. I refuse my assent to it, because I believe that the system of established polity of which, in coming forward this night, the Honourableßaronet shows him. self an ardent defender, is not congenial to the rights nor reciprocal to the situations of the people—because I believe that it is not founded either in congenial policy or natural justice, and because I believe that its authority is not derived from the high source of all measures, all interests, all views, and all policy—the inspired records.—(Cheers.) I find there, side by side, the arguments used for the maintenance of the Church Establishment of England, and for the extension of Church pro. vision in Scotland—l find there, side by side with the absolute refusal even to suffer an abstract resolution to remain on the books, an absolute refusal to provide for the spiritual destitution of an immense mass of the population of Ireland, by the payment of one single farthing from those costly revenues which the piety of former ages dedicated to the religious wants of the nation.—(Loud cheers.) The arguments of the gentlemen opposite seem, in my eyes, to be marked with the moat glaring incon sistency or the most shallow hypocrisy.—(Cheers.) It is as one coun try saying to its sister and co-ordinate country, " You are a con quered nation, and my religion shall be yours"—it is as one man saying to his fellow-creature, " My opinion is sounder than yours, and you shall either profess it or starve." I admit, for one, that both in the prepoeition of this year, as well as in the propositions of former years —we do conoede much of abstract argument, that we do fall short of the natural conclusions which from some of our premises might he deduced.—(Cheers from the Opposition Benches.) Yes, and do none of you do that ? j admit that some of my premises would admit of the propriety of making provision for the Roman Citholic clergy. We do not bring forward this ; we do not intend to bring it forward, nor do I think there is any probability of such a proposition ever being brought forward. But is such an intention or opinion confined to us ? Did not the Hon. Baronet, the mover of your amendment this evening, tell us that this was his opinion; and was it not by a distinguished Member of the Opposition that that proposition was first brought forward ? By the scheme we now propose we offer to do more than ever was done be. fore, and to give up more than ever was conceded before, In order to effect an amicable settlement upon this question. That is our view, spirit, and intention. But no! a party struggle must be waged—a party vote must be given.—(Loud cheers.) Your expiring and flicker ing chance of a majority must undergo another risk, and the ground you have chosen for your appeal is the infallible, inalienable revenues, property, duties, and establishment of the Church of Ireland. --(Loud Opposition cheers.) Well, then, in tkat cause Ido not hesi tate to take up your gage—(Cheers)—and though the Noble Lord may here or elsewhere be ready to cry " Up, Guards, and at them"—(Loud cheers)—upon this the Noble Lord's favourite ground of the Church of Ireland, as put in issue on the motion of the Hon. Baronet to rescind the resolutions of 1835, I take up the challenge he has given, and with as firm a trust, and as firm a confidence as ever he can muster, and may the truth prevail and prosper.—(The Noble Lord sat down amid loud cheers.) On the motion of Mr. E. LITTON, the debate was then adjourned until to-morrow (this day.) CHURCH LEASES. On the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, it was ordered that the Church Leases Committee consist of twenty-one Members :—Lord John Russell, Mr. Goulburn, Mr. Vernon Smith, Mr. Pusey, Mr. Lambton, Mr. Granville Vernon, Mr. Pease, Mr. Childers, Mr. Gaily Knight, Mr. Hector, Mr. Ingham, Mr. Solicitor General, Lord Eliot, Mr. Baines, Mr. William Evans, Mr. Hope Johnstone, Mr. Ward, Mr. Baring Wall, Mr. Hawes, Lord Viscount Sandon, Lord Viscount Ebrington. The other Orders of the Day being disposed of, the House adjourned at half-past twelve. Mr. ROBERT STEUART will move to-night for the nomination of the followiag Select Committee on an Agreement proposed to be entered into between the City of Edinburgh, the Creditors, and the Port of Leith :—The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, Sir Geo. Clerk, Mr. Laboucbere, Mr. Goulburn, Mr. Robert Steuart, Sir Thomas Fremantle, Mr. Warburton, Sir William Rae, Mr. Hawkins, Mr. Hope Johnstone, Mr. Hume, Sir Edward Troubridge, Sir Robert Price, and Mr. Gibson Craig. THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.—Mr. Wylde, whose useful and well-timed maps and plans of rail-roads we have more than once had occasion to applaud, has just published an ingenious map, designed to shew the languages and dialects into which the British and Foreign Bible Society has translated the Scriptures or aided in their distribution i the position of the places where Societies have been formed; the popula tion of those countries for which versions have been prepared, and the relative proportions of Christianity, Mahomedanism, and Paganism. It is altogether a very curious piece of religious statistics, and may enable inquisitive men to ascertain the value of many exertions of which hi therto we have had no test. The money expended by the British and Foreign Bible Society down to March, 1E357, we learn from one of the many tabular statements which accompany the chart is 9,339,2961. For this sum the Society has distributed the Scriptures in whole or in part, directly, in 67 languages and dialects, and indirectly, in 59. The num ber of versions is 157, and of these 105 are translations never before printed. The total issues of copies of the British and Foreign Bible So ciety, has been 10,293,645. Foreign Societies have issued 6,847,224, making a total of 17,140,869. The total number of auxiliaries, branches, and associations, connected with the British and Foreign Bible Society, in the United Kingdom, and its Colonies, is 9,636. There are, however, notwithstanding their expenditure of money and their distribu tion of the Scriptures, an abundance of Pagans and Mahometlans yet to convert. Mr. Wyld's map abounds with detailed information concern. ing each land where the Society has been at work, like that of which we have copied a brief summary. It is very curious, to be able, by the help Of the map, to trace the operations of this active and untiring Society in every part of the world, shewing that there is no distance so great, no difficuittes so appalling, but that the voluntary zeal of Christian men is able to penetrate into the former and surmount the latter. Mr. V l / 4 yld's ingenlogs map adds much to our information, as well as brings that which is already well-known, into a convenient, accessible, and lucid form. We have great pleasure in giving insertion to the following sonnet, which has been sent to us by Mr. Symmons, whose ode on " Napoleon Asleep," which appeared a few years since in Blackwood's Magazine, is unquestionably the finest of the sort in the language, as we stated at the time of its publication : SONNET, ON PERUSING " THE ATHENIAN CAPTIVE," AND RESPECTFULLY IN. SCRIBED TO MR. SERGEANT TALFOURD. Pages of solemn beauty—grace severe I With a deep thankfulness I lay you down : Henceforth for ever unto me ye bear One star-like lustre added to your own,-- Even the bright memory of the precious hour Ye stole from pain, when moody Apathy Shook to intensest life beneath the power Your shapes of loveliest terror shed on me. Praise to their proud Creator t unto HIM Who, recreant to his glorious faith too long. No more with silent lyre and censer dim Shall listless loiter at the shrine of song— But faithful to the promptings of his youth Give earth one minstrel more of radiant taste and truth. The gentlemen interested in the Colony of South Australia give a farewell dinner to the Governor, Colonel Gawler, to morrow, at the Thatched House Tavern. BRISTOL, MAT 14.—(From our own Corre spondent.)—The Great Western steam ship left New York on Saturday week, and is expected here in the course of to-morrow or Wednesday evening. Intelligence has reached town to-day of the death of General Hay, of Rannes, in Scotland, by which event his son, Sir Andrew Leith Hay, Governor of the Bermudas, succeeds to an estate of ts.tmd. a-year.—Globe Ministerial Paper. [ls the Globe quite sure that, in consequence of a family arrangement several years ago, in which the late General coneurrad with Sir Andrew, the latter is not precluded from any benefit arising out of the paternal property ?-31orning Post] In our report, yesterday, of the proceedings of the meeting on the " Spanish Legion," the name of Mr. LIMBTON, one of the speakers, was misprinted as Dr. LAMBERT, and Dr. Lsmirrox. Mr. Prescott's " History of the Rein of Ferdinand and Isabella," is a book written under circumstas of the most extra ordinary difflculty—so extraordinary, indeed, that one less imbued with the importance of iMe subject would have relinquished the task in des- PBir• It is a publication which must undoubtedly take its place on the same shelf with Gibbon, Robertson, Mid Hume; and which, while it embraces all the popularity of the ptyla j and all thehistorical accuracy of two of those celebrated authors, exposes, at the same time, the errors of the third, and that in terms to modest, while so convincing, as at once to persuade and engage even the most reluctant and prejudiced reader. Great, however, as is the merit of this admirable work, it has as yet attracted eomparativfly little atten tion. Scarcely any portion of the Press has sung load paeans in its praise—no Government has coma forward either to patronise the publi cation, or to confer honour end rewards upon its author ; little is the popularity it has achieved among the American public—little do they yet appreeietg it as a publication honourable to their count r y, or as t h e firs; star which has appeared on that horizon, the darkness of which has hitherto been rendered oiliy the more visible by the brilliancy of such authors as ;Yashington Irving of ;Fenimore Cooper.—Courier. ELOPEMENT. — An affair of this sort has created quite a feeling of _excitement in Falmouth. On Priday evening a young lady, possessing a considerable fortune independent of her respcF4ble parents, left home under the pretence of regeiving some money due to her. She did not return as spot) as expected, w 44 induced a suspi. cion in her father's mind that she hsai eloped . vitt) somebody, and he re solved to set off to Exeter in search of her. The young lady waikefi to the outside of the town, where the guard of the Exeter coach proved to be the Lothario in waiting, who handed her into a chaise and drove her to Truro, returning in time to take his One as guard, and promising to take her on to Exeter by the coach. The father took his p!ace on the outside of the Exeter coach, with his future son-ip,iaw, As guard ; on arriving at Truro, the guard exclaimed at the inn, after shutting the coach door with a gillll, A lady from Falmouth ggtOng out." The father hastened down, and, ,running into the inn, excletmed, It is my daughter!" At the same instant the g?..4a54 galled out to the coachman. 4 , All right," who drove on to the town-'s-eO, where the lady was waiting, and eonveyod her to Exeter, where the marfiaie tpgk place the following morning, soon after eight o'clock. About eleven pia i iock the father arrived. but too late to peeyent the union of his child. NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOB. 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LONDON: TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1833 The Tory band of conspirators, who are now preparing to blow up the peace, the prosperity, and the progress cf society, were so boldly met last night by Lord JouN Rus- SELL, that, judging from the report of the speech of Sir THOMAS ACLAND, the little talent with which Goo has endowed the Professing Devonshire Baronet was frightened out of his body. A poorer leader for such a forlorn hope as that of the Tories, never attempted to scale a well manned fortress. Even if he had not been assailed and discomfited before he left his own tents, the poor thing, en dowed as he is with a well earned character for loving peace and professing piety, would never have been able to mount the breach, though shoved on by that other and heavier specimen of the same qualities who se conded him, and that impetuous champion of all that is proud, overbearing, and Buonapartist, who, on pretence of being summoned by Mr. FRENCH, rushed towards the close of the debate, to the aid of Sir THOMAS. Lord STANLEY only made it perfectly evident, by the apologies which he pronounced at the commencement of his speech for the course which the Tories have adopted, that the whole proceeding is a concerted plan of the conspirators to seize the Government ; and they selected, as their cat's paw, on account of his plausible character, the instrument of the Bishop of EXETER. The nefarious scheme having been from the beginning completely comprehended by the Ministers, Lord JOHN RUSSELL did not wait for the attack, but commenced it by a manly and bold speech, such as the Noble Lord always makes, when threatened by the Tories, and which always dissipates the doubts sometimes entertained by the best friends of the Government, of its attachment to libe ral principles, and restore it completely to their undimi nished confidence. The boldness with which he took the Tory bull by the horns, evidently disconcerted the beast ; and pinned, as he is now, to the earth, we trust he will be thrown down sprawling in the end, a memorable example that calm courage is more than a match for furious, bel lowing ambition. It was not expected by the Tories that Lord JOHN would not only explain his plan, but make an effectual attack on their whole system, under which the Port, Times, and herald, writhe and wriggle this morning most piteously. They do not like that the public at large should learn on the authority of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, that the clergy are at the bottom of this attempt to disturb the public tranquil lity ; and they do not like to see statesmen make any reference to the principles of the union of Church and State, and to the authorities on which that union is supported, because they are well aware that both authorities and principles condemn the Church of Ireland. They do not like to have it sounded through the land that Churches are political contrivances for the good of the people, because they fed convinced that the taxing Church of England, and the blood red Church of Ireland, seem only mischievous or horrible by such a test. They do not like to have it repeated that the Church of Ireland is established by the State for the good of the people ; that it is selected from amongst other sects, partly on account of the purity of its doctrine, and partly on account of its efficiency as an instrument of instruc tion ; and they do not like to be reminded, that after two hundred years uninterrupted possession by the Church of enormous wealth, the great bulk of the people still remain im mersed in Popery, and justly hate Protestantism on account of the bloody exactions with which the Clergy, who have large revenues and no congregations, have connected it. They do not like to have it published on authority that Tory professions are snares, and that the principles of the Tories are of such a hateful nature, that it is impossible for them to get possession of the Government without being intolerant, oppressive, and insulting ; and without either establishing an iron-handed tyranny in Ireland, or driving the Irish, who are now contented and have confidence in the Government, into open rebellion. The extreme soreness of the Tory Journals this morning, is a convincing proof that Lord JOHN RUSSELL made a most effective, as well as a bold speech. He was ably supported by Lord LEvESON and Lord MORPETII ; and both Sir CHARLES LEMON and Mr. SLANEY redeemed some recent errors by speaking against Sir THOMAS ACLAND'S proposition to rescind the appropriation resolutions of 1835. That Colonel CONOLLY and Mr. LEFROY should support, and Sir WILLIAM SO suRvILLE, and Mr. FR ENCH should oppose it, is natural, and that we shall have a great deal more speaking on the subject, as the debate was adjourned, is to be expected. Except Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who made some pertinent remarks on the uselessness of rescinding the resolutions of a past Parliament, which are for the. present Parliament mere waste paper, no person made any observations on the technical part of the motion. We are not much sur prised at this, because one of the arguments with which Sir ROBERT PEEL has frequently opposed all general abstract propositions—in the shape of resolu- tions—is that they bind only the House of Commons which passes them, and are of no obligation for its succes sors. To have entered on the technical part of the ques tion would only have demonstrated the needless absurdity of Sir THOMAS ACLAND, who nourished high thoughts out of Parliament in 1835, now wasting the time of the House, like Sir EDWARD SUGDEN in relation to the Wills Act, by proposing to rescind that which was completed without the Parliament waiting to ask his advice. The motion, in fact,except as another occasion for familiarizing the public with the important question of appropriating Church property to useful purposes, for which we are grateful to the Tories, and, except as a means of party warfare, is wholly useless, and a mere waste of the public time. There was one principle broadly and repeatedly laid down by Lord JossN RUSSELL that deserves our especial h approbation. Legislators, h e said, must b en d to the force of circumstances. Ther e is a p rinci p l e at work in society which overrules the law-maker, an d compels him to adapt his measures to its dictates, Now, if this principle Lip f such fore a 3 t o compe l an alteration of tactics in a few y ears, a nd render that valueless in 1838 which in 1835 would have been an acceptable and healing measure, what must be its opera tion through centuries $ and how wretchedly unfit may be the institutions of a past age—proper nod suitable in those days ---to the present circumstances of society ? Take, for example, this very question of religious instruction which the Tories would now have propagated—Omni, t h e Press is in existence —by the same methods, and in the same or similar temples as were adopted before fs4nting was known, and before it was pos sible to communicate w ith multitudes of m en other wise than by the voice. W only 4 11 1.14 e now t o t h e principle but we are confident, if Church Establishments, and te4chipg religion by sermonc, sPok.Go once a week, be looked at In rOarretwe iv the present circumsta nces o f • • • ',at titularly the existence of the . P :fss, instead of society, _ merely looking q_t hem because they are established, they will be found utterly and hooleply defenceless. On rkccouttt, we are grateful to tj Toiel and the Clergy for agitating the question, because we are convinced that there is not, in the whole circle of politics, a question to which SANCHO'S notorious, but offensive proverb, is so applicable, as the question of now paying a Priesthood largely to teach religion by verbal instruction once a week. We understand that the Tories will probably be beate by a majority of at least fourteen. e think Lord Jot's; RUSSELL must now be convinced of the inexpediency of the system of policy which he un fortunately adopted at the commencement of this Session. Possibly misled by some observations of the Duke of WEL LINGTON last year with regard to the points in dispute between the two parties, eand possibly also from a leaning to what is tailed Conservatism, he has pursued a course rather calculated to conciliate his enemies than to encourage or support his friends. It has been a sort of half Whig— half Tory policy, and it has consequently produced the re sults which invariably follow all half measures. His speech on the Ballot and the Borough Constituency was calculated to please the Tories ; so was his policy towards Canada and towards the Negro Apprentices; and so were the resolutions which he propounded some weeks ago for the settlement of the Irish Tithe Question—and what has been the result ? The Tories joined with Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH in order to damage the Ministry by denouncing their Colonial policy, and but two days before these con ciliatory resolutions were to be brought under the notice of the House, they mustered in awful array at Merchant Tailors' Hall, and had for their watch-words, " Success on Monday,"--:" No Surrender." The Tories are as hostile as ever, and a great deal more daring, be cause they know, that in proportion as Ministers yiold to their suggestions, or adopt a line of policy in any way coinciding with their own, they to the same ex tent alienate their friends and weaken their power. This ruinous system has now been sufficiently tried. One concession only emboldens their opponents to demand an other, and were even the last concession made, they would find that in place of gaining favour they only expose them selves to ridicule and to renewed attacks. 111-advised, however, as they have been, their conciliatory policy may not be without good effects, if they know to im prove the present opportunity, and make a determined stand against the detestable system of Government which the Tories would perpetuate in Ireland. After the con tempt with which Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S advances have been treated, he would have the sympathy of all dispas sionate men, were he to act with the spirit which animated him in the cause of Parliamentary Reform. He brought in a sweeping measure—no half and half resolutions like those proposed for settling Irish tithes ; and because it was a sweeping measure the country joined cordially in the cause, and finally carried it. In Ireland a much greater nuisance than rotten boroughs still exists. The Irish Church is an anomaly unequalled in the history of the world. A large establishment of clergy, mostly without hearers, is kept up to increase (as they say) the number of Protestants—but in reality to provide in comes for men of a certain party ; and not one penny is to be set aside for the religious and moral instruc tion of the great body of the people. While such a system endures, the people of Ireland must be discon. tented, and England must keep up troops and a large con stabulary force to prevent them from rising up against an abomination which degrades and oppresses them. With the Court in their favour, with the majority in the House of Commons, and the support of the Irish nation, Ministers, would they only act with vigour, might soon bring the House of Lords to reason. We have great pleasure in directing the attention of our readers to the vote of thanks of the Anti-Slavery Society to Sir ROBERT INGLIS, for the Honoura ble Baronet's motion in the House of Commons for the more effectual suppression of the Foreign Slave Trade, which will be found in our advertizing columns. No tri bute of respect from so meritorious a body was ever better earned. The Hon. Member for the University of Oxford, in bringing the question of the Slave trade before Parliament, rose above the petty warfare of faction, and exacted the thanks of his political opponents by the Christian-like spirit in which he denounced its horrors. It is true that no moral courage was requisite for such a task, as Sir Ito- BERT must have known that the Government would in stantly adopt his motion for an address to her MAJESTY ; but the manner in which he brought it before Parliament justly claims the thanks of every friend of the coloured race. We forget the Toryism of Members of Parliament, when we see them thus prefer the social and moral welfare of the human race to the selfish interests of fac tion. There are some men in whom the passion for distinction is so strong that it must be gratified at all hazards. As this propensity is always found in the greatest excess in persons of the weakest intellect, we are furnished, at once, with a key for the solution of certain problems in the conduct of Lord STANHOPE, Lord LONDONDERRY, and that lackbrain Sir FRANCIS BURDETT. We beg pardon of the two Noble Lords for mentioning them at the same time with one with whose name so many discreditable associations are connected. They are simply fools—he is a fool, and " something more." Though their love of distinction has often led them into situations where they have made themselves ridiculous, it has not obliterated the moral sense by which right is distinguished from wrong. In " Old Glory" this obliteration has been accomplished. He has now conquered all the vulgar prejudices which act as re straints on the great bulk of mankind, and stands forth in his seventy-second year the most perfect specimen of an apostate that the world has ever seen. But to return to Lord STANHOPE. This Noble Lord, it will be seen by our Parliamentary report, last night supplied the second branch of the Legislature with a sub ject of merriment in lieu of Lord LONDONDERRY, who, we suppose, wes presiding over a Radical meeting about the Coronation. The Poor-law grievances are at pre sent the Earl of STANHOPE'S hobby. It would ap pear from the proceedings in the House, that his Lordship is a pretty hard rider, and, like other per sons of that description, not exempt from accidents. Indeed, his whole equestrian experience may be said to be nothing but an uninterrupted series of falls, which, strange to say, instead of producing caution, lead to still more adven turous exploits. In his unreasoning hostility to the new Poor law, Lord STANHOPE is blind to every object that stands in his way. He cannot even see, when he presents a peti tion against it, all the signatures to which are by one hand either that some malicious wag has taken advantage of his infirmity, and played off a trick upon him, or that an enemy to the Poor-law has practised a fraud, and committed a breach of privilege towards the House of Lords, showing at the same time the desperate shifts to which the opponents of that greatest of legislative mea sures in modern 'times are obliged to resort, in order to excite a clamour against it. The petition, as a matter of course, was kicked out of the House, and Lord STAN- Ho p X rebuked for his remissness in presenting it. There is very little news of any interest in the Paris Pa pers of Sunday. A rumour prevails that the Ministers tendered their resignations immediately after their signal defeat on the Railway question, but the KING refused to to a ccept them. His MAJESTY is reported to have com forted them with the assurance, that if they could weather the storm for six weeks longer, he would take care to let them have six months re p ose , i n th e course o f w hi c h they might form many schemes which would have the effect of thinning the ranks of the Opposition. On Saturday a deputation of the linendrapers, accompa nied by 40 members of the Chamber of Deputies, had an in terview with the President of the Council, for the purpose of praying the Government not to make any reduction on the import duty on linen and linen-yarn, as such a reduction would enable British manufacturers to compete with the Frenchin their own m ar k e t. Th e Mi n i sters promised that the lic interests of the deputation Would receive the ne cessary protection. We have received South American journals to the 2sth of February, inclusive. The blockade of the city of Bahia was e luded by a Danish vessel laden with flour, to the great rel►ef of the starving inhabitants. The civil war was daily disgraced by the most savage atrocities, „..... -- A N OPPONENT FOR DR. CHALMERS.—The appearance of the Rev. Doctor in our capital as the defender of the Union between Church and State, 43 roused up ; as might naturally have been e4peatetl, Pf.afS o Ml tO 04144. that union. Eut when was zeal discreet? The Rev. ?dr. Hinton, who, we are told, is a clever man, it one of those who have undertaken this task. He proposes to give a pours@ rtigeleut;rwoltriihVriave lauded the POI of three lectures to hi; apniiregatißll Pfl49yopshiru.square chapel, in reply 3iThe citieltion Of Church Establishment, of no Church s now fairly afloat, and will not return again into port the apiSgrigp of laymen, Meddling divines and itrEs t o tig l i c aft r bi . 1:::1 C :tho h i4: a , e ct on th°. `!:. of emir°. if Church rAtabiishmenia should be wrecked, they may thank versy, an their own too FraspinF cuidditz, r •—' ELECTION COMMITTEES. THIS DAY. BEDFORD. At the close of yesterday's proceedings the sitting Members were in a majority of one, which the Coun3el for petitioners now proceeded to reduce. WATERFORD.—(CLOSE OF THE INQUIRY.) The Committee met at the usual hour. The Counsel for petitioners proceeded in the case of bribery against Mr. Barron. A voter named M'Grath was called, who deposed that he had received 51. from Mr. Barron after the election, having voted for that gentleman. Witness was cross.examined at great length by Mr AUSTIN, and it appeared that he bore by no means the highest character in Waterford. Since he had been in London he had been frequently drunk, and he was never entrusted with more than a few shillings at a time. His wife (he said) had received the five sovereigns, but she was not here. Cross-examined by Mr. Aus - m—l began the conversation by telling Mr. Barron I had no objection to vote for him, and he then shook hands with me and persuaded me not to leave Waterford till after the elec tion. I first told Mr. Atkinson, one of the agents of Major Beresfurd, that I had received the 51. Mr. Atkinson said there was a wager laid of 501. that money had been paid, and asked if I knew of any. I said ,if you will keep the matter secret, I do know, and will :.:11 you : I re ceived some myself—(Great laughter.) I did not say on that occasion what money I received, and never heard anything more about the wager until I received the summons to appear here. It was only within the last few days that I said how much I got. lam at tines entrusted with as much as sixpence by my wife.—(Loud laughter.) I have not been drunk since I came to London, but have been tipsy three or four times. I got very unwell, and therefore began to drink.—(Roars of laughter ) Did not tell Mr. M'Cullogh anythingabout receiving the five sovereigns. Since I have been in London I sent a note to Mr. Barrow, and twice called at his hotel, but did not see him. I told a man named King that I wished to expose the conspiracy against Mr. Barron. I told King that I was to receive forty pounds if I proved the case against Mr. Barron. I also told him that M'Cullogh was to receive twenty pounds or thirty pounds forgiving ev.dence. I also told him that M'Cullogh's daughter was to receive money. Mr. Ausrm was proceeding to ask the witness if he had told M'Cul logh about the forty pounds, when Mr. WRANGIIAM objected:to the question, as the eff.•ct of the answer might be to criminate M'Cullogh, and that could only be done in the re gular mode. Mr. AUSTIN said that was not his object; he only wanted to " in famize" the witness. Mr. WRANGRAM replied, after which the room was cleared. On our re-admission, The CHAIRMAN said the Committee were of opinion that the questions might be put to the witness, but that no question should be put which might tend to criminate M'Cullogh. Mr. WRANGHAM said, after the evidence which had been elicited, he should withdraw the petition against Mr. Barron. The Committee then decided that H. W. Barron was duly elected; that the petition against his return was not frivolous or vexatious, nor was the opposition thereto. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in London at Nisi Fritts.) CATTLIII V. BROOKS. This action was to try ,an issue directed from the Court of Bankruptcy upon a question arising out of certain bill transactions. The case for the plaintilThad not concluded when our reporter left, and the trial will occupy the Court to a late hour. It possesses no feature of popular interest. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY. William Gullen, and Thomas Baker, were convicted of stealing from the person of Mr. Frederick Joseph Burnett, on the 26th of the last month, a pocket-handkerchief, value 2s. his property. The prisoners being old offenders, and having been seut to Bridewell before for the same offence, the Recorder told them that they must ex pec t to leave the country. Sarah Brown, a widow, was indicted for stealing, on the 15th of April, 12 yards of lawn, one shawl, two collars and other articles, the property of Messrs. Hitchcock and Rogers, and Susan Bainson, also a widow, was indicted for receiving the same, well knowing them to have been stolen. It appeared that the prisoner Brown was employed as a charwoman at the house of Messrs. Hitchcock and Rogers, in St. Paul's Church yard, and in that capacity abstracted the property in question. Upon Mr. Hitchcock being examined, he said it was impossible for him to say whether he had sold the property or it had been stolen. The prisoners were immediately acquitted. The RECORDIR said that he supposed Mr. Hitchcock thought they had nothing to do in that Court, and that he had brought the present prosecution to give them some employment.—(Laughter.) The prisoners were again indicted for stealing some tortoiseshell_ combs, silk, and ribbon, the property of the same prosecutors. The Jury acquitted the prisoners. The prisoners were again indicted, but the prosecutors offering no evidence they were acquitted. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) A respectable looking young man named James Paton described as a private tutor, Has brought before Mr. Twyford, charred with stealing a pamphlet, the property of the proprietor of the Cambrian Coffee-house, Great Russell.street. It appeared from the statement of Mr. Forbes, the prosecutor, that tha prisoner was in the habit of frequenting his house for the purpose of taking refreshment, and in consequence of having repeatedly missed books and pamphlets after he had left, he gave directions to the female in attendance to watch and give information the moment the prisoner left the house, as he had been there on Saturday last, and on his depar ture, books to the value of ss. had been stolen. The prisoner was ac cordingly stopped going down stairs.this morning, as he had been seen concealing Bentley's Miscellany, produced in his pocket, and on the arrival of a police constable, he handed the pamphlet to the prosecutor at the same time acknowledging his guilt. Mr. TWYFOItD expressed his surprise how any man of common sense could be guilty of an offence which subjected him to transportation, when he might remain in the room as long as he pleased, and peruse the most interesting works fora very small consideration. Mr. Forbes declared he had no vindictive feeling towards the pri soner, and expressed a hope that the charge would be treated as leni ently in a summary way as would answer the ends of justice. Mr.'FwvFoan had no hesitation in thinking that no hostile feeling existed against the prisoner on the part of the prosecutor, but the offence was of a very wanton and heinous nature, and the public should be so far protected, as to make an example of the prisoner, by sending him for two months to hard labour in the House of Correction. The prisoner admitted he had done wrong, but as he had never before been guilty of a similar offence, he hoped for a mitigation of punish. rnent, for it was his intention to have returned the book as soon as he had read it. He was then removed from the Bar. GLOUCESTER-SATURDAY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sia—Much admiring your holiest course, in all humane and charit. able matters, I am induced to trouble you with a few lines on the con duct of Ministers respecting the dismissal from office of Lord C. Fitzroy. Is it possible that our young and virtuous Queen can be the dupe of such conduct ? Is it possible she can allow a noble, generous, feeling, and virtuous man to be discarded—meanly discarded from his office, because he voted according to conscience? It is impossible'. Let the'people of England arouse themselves. Let them get up memorials to the Throne— let them get up subscriptions, to present to such a " Christian" some token of their admiration. The Marquis of Sligo acted well, even at the eleventh hour, we all admit. Surely the people of England, then, will not be backward, in their zeal for the cause of negro slavery, in doing alike for such an act in Lord C. Fitzroy's case. The conduct of Ministers, at the time of the Reform Bill, encouraged agitation and pressure even front the lowest in society—the poor deluded wretches who fancied they should have bread for nothing—but when the united voices of the serious; pious, thinking Christians, cry aloud for mercy, they are discarded, and called Christian dogs ! Beware, oh ye professing Liberal men I —ye wolves in sheep's clothing—if your downfall is not near at hand, lam Mistaken. The 21st of June will be a day when the brightest jewel in the Crown will be tarnished by the curse of slavery. " Oh! fie upon—fie upon it; it is foul—it smells to heaven." Your well wisher, EMANCIPATOR. er Majesty and the Duchess of Kent visited the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park, on Saturday. The Duke of Wellington's grand banquet on Satur day evening, at Apsley House, was given to a party of thirty.seven of the leading Conservative Peers. Among the company were the Dukes of Northumberland, Beaufort, Newcastle, Dorset, Rutland; Marquises of Hertford, Bute, Exeter, Salisbury, and Londonderry; Earls of Roden, Winchilsea, Mansfield, Jersey, De Grey, Falmouth, Brownlow ; Lords Wynford, Lyndhurst, Strangford, ElleaborOugh, Alvanley, Stuart de Rothsay, Forester, &c. The Dowager Duchess of Beaufort entertained the Marquis and Marchioness Cholmondeley, Lord and Lady Galloway, and a family circle, at dinner, on Saturday evening, in Upper Brook-street, Lieut. 11. Morgan, of her Majesty's ship Pembroke, has been tried by a Court-martial at Malta, in consequence of assertions made by two midshipmen of that ship, affecting his character as an officer and a gentleman. The Court considered the evidence suffi cient, and dismissed him her Majesty's service. Yesterday, at the early hour of 12 a.m., upwards of IGO of the leading Members of the Opposition in both Houses of Parliament assembled at Apsley House The subject of discussion was understood to be the Irish Poor-law Bill, which lately passed the House of Commons. The Dowager Queen of Naples is said to be on the point of marrying a Neapolitan Nobleman, only twenty-eight Tens of age. As her Majesty is somewhat older, being born in 178,9, the young man is said to have required a large pecuniary sum to make up for the difference in their years. The amount is under consideration, and constitutes the only impediment to their union. Admiral the Right Hon. Sir G. Cockburn, will take the chair at the ensuiug annual General Meeting of the friends and supporters of the Royal Naval School On Friday evening, F. B. Calvert, A.1V1., of King's College, Ab:rdeen, concluded his lectures on the Poets, at the Institu tion, Chanctery-lane. The Lake School, with Campbell, Moore, Scott, and Byron, formed the subjects of this last lecture, and the characte ristics of these Poets were sketched with the same masterly and kiscri minating hand as all the preceding ones. Th e theatre of the Institution was extremely full. Saturday evening a troop of the 10th Hussars ar rived in Chesterfield from Nottingham barracks, for the supposed pur pose of quelling any disturbance that might at ise in the neighbourhood of Alfreton by the excavators employed on the railway, and also for the protection of property. Monday afternoon, however, the troops returned to Nottingham, the commanding-officer having had some conversation with the Magistrates, who, we understand, stated that they had not sent for the soldiers, but, on the contrary, were of opinion that the civil power was sufficient in this neighbourhood to quell any ordinary disturbance. Thero appears to have been some mistake.__D erky Clattmicle. The Earl of Cavan, we are h appy to state, is reco vering from swore contusion i n th e knee, which he received whilst , hunting in Forest with he r M a j esty's Aaghounds, o : New Lord Carrington has arrived at the Tesidence of the Hon Robert Smith, in B elgrave.street, ;tom Deal Castle. Colonel Gore Langton is at present unable to attend the 11 . 4 . of csmimons in consequence of a very seven attack of in_ fluenaa. It is with sincere regret that we hav e to announce the death of the Hotl, tiratitaal Ninnaird, which to o k pl a ce under the following inslaneholy circumstances. Mr. Kinnaird was Lieutenant commanding her Majesty's brig Rapid, and the vessel having been striven on some rocks and Wrecked off' . ,-, i' liLsr;a, Tunis, he attempted to get near ashore in his gig, F4tAs 800 was the violence of the %Ca that the ) :;.,at up_ rp. tca aonf hebseakgs, and Mr. kinnaird .done 1140,1 shore. All facts 4 Waa A 4 ( Inly , person. d".. - wned ottt of the Wire crew offiof Ole Vane -f4l ant} it is b " c^ " . .„ j . mon ustiee ' to this yourg and g allant Von,, inn high pr om i se _ to add, that to his presence of mind . i n reaching the an" ...""- — j unto is, under Providen ce, attributable. Mr. Graham vinnatrd was a" iollg arrangement s i n the midst of danger the sa l vat i on . of the his death will o w f ogpger brother of th e present Lord Kinnaird, an d crew agow into sincereNownina inany noble f.sulillis4l LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY•) DEAL, MAY 14.—Wind E.N.E., moderate.—Came down from the River and sailed, the Saphira, Brown, for Quebec ; Swallow, Tobson, for ditto; Vernon, Davis, for Madeira; Arethusa, Beard, for Antigua ; Tancred, Crosby, for St. Lucia. Arrived and proceeded for the River, the Dart, Ormston, from Madeira; Concord, from the Mediterranean; St. Ann's, from the westward and remains. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 14.—Wind E.N.E., fine.—Arrived the Camilla, Oldridge, from Oporto. Sailed the Bolden, Campbell, fcr Quebec; her Majesty's brig Cruizer, for the East Indies. • PLymourn, MAY 13.—Wind N.—Arrived ofr poi t, the M dabar, Bar, from Bombay. FALMOUTH, MAY 13.—Wind N., fresh breezes and fine.—Arrived the Reindeer packet, Lieut. Dicken, from Rio Janeiro, sailed Ist March, on freight 21,0001. sterling; Lord Melville packet, Lieut. Webbe, from Vera Cruz, sailed 9th March, Tampico, 20th March, and Havannah, sth April, freight 370,000 dollars; Isabella, Thompson, from Gallipoli, sailed 26th March; her Majesty's ship, Meteor, Lieut. Pritchard, from a cruize. item.—The Opossum packet, with mails from Falmouth, ar rived at Rio, 25th January. LIVERPOOL, MAY 14.--Wind N.N.E. to N.N.W., light.—Arrived the Elizabeth, Neill, from Messina. Arrived off port, the Cabotia, from Bahia; Inca, from Laguayra ; Cincinnati, from New Orleans; Albion, from St. John's, New Brunswick ; Charlotte, from Dantzic SCILLY, MAY 12.—Arrived olf, the Brothers, from Canton; Madrai, Beach, from Madras; Julia, from Rio Janeiro ; Alida, - Vase, from Ha vannah ; Molly, from St. 't homas's ; Victor, Hodnett, and West Indian, from St. Vincent's ; Volga, from Smyrna; Hector, from Sicily; Brune, from Cadiz. POOLE; MAY 14,—Arrived the Edward, Dudt, from Memel. GLoucEsrEr, MAY 14.—Arrived the Ocolus, Beding, from Memel; Copernicus, from Dantzic. WEYMOUTH, MAY 14.—Arrived off; Ingleborough, Ricketts, Canton. CROOKHAVEN, MAY 14.—Arrived the British Tar, Addison, from Sierra Leone; Charles, Clarke, St. Jago de Cuba. WATERFORD, MAY N.—Arrived the Flora, Pavey, from London. Corm, blAt Ig.—Arrived the Mary Ann, Tucker, from Palermo• Arrived off, the Columbus, from Copiapo. ABERDEEN, MAY 12.—Arrived the St. Joannes, Happenratt, front Dantzic. HILL, MA' 14.—Arrived the Sophia Catharina, from Kiel; Emigreit, Voss, from Rostock ; Frau Arokalynes, from Stettin ; Seaborne steamer, from Rotterdam. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS , • CITY (THIS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK. We have received Cape of Good Hope papers to the 25th Feb. We extract the following : "An unusually long list of " Cattle stolen and missing" on the frontier, appears in the town journal, and some rumours of war in Caffcrland itself, are also reported. Such reports, whether strictly cor rect or not, are calculated to keep Government and the frontier author rities always uneasy." We have received Rio Janeiro Papers to the 29th Feb., bringing the exchange on London 28, Stocks, Sq. The accounts in the Rio papers state that Sergio, the Commander of the rebels, had passed over to the Imperial forces with 120,000 cart ridges. The state of affairs in Bahia, according to the last accounts, is looked upon as considerably more favourable, and as drawing towards a speedy conclusion. The accounts from Rio Grande are also of a favourable nature. The Imperial forces have raised the seige of Porto Alegre. In Stocks there has been latterly very little doing ; the rate of 6 per Cents, has gradually declined from 81 to 86k. Some small business has been done in the Exchange at 28 to 28* and 28i. It is now looking very firm at the latter rate, at which there are still bills. Sydney papers have been this day received to the 12th of November. The long continued drought has greatly reduced the supplies of vege tables and potatoes. Colonial potatoes selling at 14s. to 16s. per cwt. Extract of a letter from Rio Janeiro, of the 28th February, posted et the North and South American Coffee House : " Since our last advices our commercial affairs have decidedly ilt• proved. The accounts from Rio Grande are very satisfactory, and the news from Bahia (ten days later) lead us to suspect that the town has surrendered to the legal authorities long before this. The trifling dis turbances in Pernambuco were easily put down. No new bonds will be issued by the Minister of Finance far some time to come. The OP"" sum and the Dublin packets will leave here in about ten days, when I hope to send you more decided intelligence. Exchange on London 25 to 28* ; Stocks 861, rather sellers." THE FUNDS. Consols closed rather heavy yesterday at 93 % to 94 both for th e Account and Money. The motion last night in the House of Coret° ° " by Sir T. Ackland rath er ag i tated the market, and the adjournment of the debate to this day will still operate on the market, and no trans action of importance is likely to take place until the division is known' Consols are rather better this morning than they closed at Ye sterdaY ' opened at 94 to 94* ; the leaving off, price was 93 % 34 both for That and Money. Exchequer Bills, 71 73 prem. ; India Bonds, 81 Bank Stock, 204 205 ; I n di a S toc k , 271. gpanish,Active closed 21i I, opene d 216 Portuguese, 36} 57 1 , Three per Cents., 24* 25 ; B raz ili an, 76* ; Mexican, 28*; p ule Two.and-a-Half per C en t s , , 54f f . prein. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. 3 per Csnt. cons 94% South Sea Stock 3% per . Old ... . ...... Ditto Re.l 1014 1 % New Ditto New 3% per Cent..... ..... 10 - 2!4% 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 New 5 per Cent Brink LongAnnuitiestoexpire Di tto 500 71 73 7 0 Pf - Jan. 5, 1860 l5 1-16 Ditto Small 7l 73 70 Pm' let. 10, 1959 — Ditto Commercia: Jan. 5, 1860 15% 5-16 Ditto Advertised tan. 5, ....... Bank Stock for Account ..... April 5,18 S, — India Stock for Account ........ 94 Jan. 5, ifi7o — Consols for Accon nt ............ PPICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'Cl• Qlf ' Aliztnan Honda — Peruvian Bonds Belgian Rends.. Drttn Account • • Portuguese Bonds ~..... ......... Brazilian iionds !rid , Account — Ditto Account .. 3i EN liiienos L yres. Bonds Ditto ; per cent....... 6 5% hilliara DM:, Account . Ditto Account .... . .... .. . .23 6% 5I ~.. ,,•,- Prussian Bends ... Ditto Account .„, .... Rusman Bonds, Cs'untblan 80nd5...... ......... Ditto Accoun , Ditto AccouLL _ _ C3lt, iumbian Bonds, 1824. 274i Spanish 80 - uds , •i•to Account - Ditto Account ..,... ...... - French, 5 pei cent. ... ~ —I. --0- Ditto Bonds, 1825 .... ... . — ---- 4 per cent. ....... :.. —l. —c. Ditto Account . 3 per mit. ......... . —l. —c. Mexican Bunsls, 5 per c0n',..,„ —-- Exchange —t. e 11l tto Account "'Dutch, 2,, per cent 54 -- Vii Ditto, 6 per cent. 28%44 Ditto Account Ditto Account 9 37 , Neapolitan Ditto Ac 9 Ditto, per cen t lOOMi count • PRICES OF SHARES THIS D AY AT ONE O'CLOCK are. D itish Iron Comp an y Paid. p e r Qh 50 n /11 / 2 United Mexica n (i ssue d at' /. pm.) Ditto New Scrip 5 1 B , mingham and D er b y R a i lway Company 3O Bristoi and Exeter Railway Company lO 61n 6 stern Counties Railway ...... -............. ..... Brighton Raihviv coo - Irani' . 8 si L - ndon and Birmingham Railway Company. 9O 169 London and Nuuthampton Hallway Compar,y 5O 4:”4 4 London and South am pt on (N ew) Railway 20 8054 10 London and Croydon Rail way C ompany 164 N inn Midland Railway Co mi any 35 39%• 14 15 Asphalte, Claridge's Patent _.......•.. 2 Do. Liverpool. ..... Do. United States ..................... ....... Bitumen, Bastenne and Gatnac - 3 `A Do. Robinson 3 Do. Polonceau...... ............... 2 3 1 4 3 ' Colonial Bank .. ......................... ". 25 -- 25 Ditto Scrip ............................. '." 25 Mexican and South American .. ....... National Cognac Br an d y D istillery Company 561 This being Settling-day in the Foreign L l a - r S he T br Ol‘, a . nd jobbers are busy i n settling their accounts ; nevertheless a consid erable improvement has taken pl ace in the Portuguese and Spanish Stoc k s since the early part of th e morning. Portuguese Stock, which was 36' inor 'n ; 5 14, be quoted at 374 384 ; T hree per Cents., from 244 to 251 264 ; S"n which was in th e morn i ng at 216 1, is now 224 to 224. This sudden rise is attributed t o th ere being great Bears in these Stocks; and it bei ng m.. Settling-day, they w ere o bli ged to buy in their accounts. U P tot__ P k e A t the present hour th e s e ttli ng i s go i ng off well ; we do not hear of any f a ilur We hear that th e M ex i can packet has brought 370,000 dollars, a n d the Brazil packet 21,0001. Consols maybe quoted at present 94 to 944, both for time and moo Exchequer Bills, 70 prem. ; India Bonds, 81 ; Bank Stock, 2044 205 ^ In the Foreign M ar k e t , a re-action Las taken pl ace in the POrtllg'. lo ' Stocks, and they have receded from 384 to 374. Three per Cent L . from 264 to 254. Spanish Active keeps steady at 22g. Bra zili n- Bathing doing. Mexi can, 284 ; Colombian, 274; Dutch Two- and.a-,"*" per Cents., 54 g. In the Share Market little doing. Brighton got up to A prem. Cl ': ridge's Asphalte im proved to 13 prem; Liverpool, at i prem.; unite,. States, li prem. ; Polonceau, 1 prem. THREE O'CLOCK, Consols for tha Account, g 4 94i.. THE FUNDS.- 2 I C I D O it S to r ss N teo G ek P .T. R n. ............. ....... .......... 7 Bank Stock' BRITISSH .I n diaFUND: A ......................... 3 per Cent. 'Red 3% Ditto Bonds ........................... 5 ' ..... 3 per Cent Cons 94% Ditto Old Ann uities ... ......... ••• ...... 3;,p per Cent 101% Ex. Bills, •1 ,,0001 *il ....... 70 0 ,,,, 3 per Cent. Red New 3t per Cent 102% Ditto 50 1 70 I' sl ' Long Annuities to expire 15 1-16 i Bank Stock i s l? ° r l Opg.. .............. ....."" Jan. 186 / Oct, 1850 „, Jan. 1860 FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent Belgian, 3 per cent 1,,i14 DPotrttougsrueeswe Ditto .. 5 .. . . p .. e .. r .. c .. c . n .. t:: 3 7 E... ; IFtraxlilan Bonds 76% Prussian, 5 per cent ............... ,„,,, Buenos Ayr, s, 6 per cent — Russian Bonds, 5 per cent ...... Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic. ...................... ~,,,z _- Colombian, 6 per cent — Spanish, 5 per cent .................. ..._74=7' Ditto, 1F144 Danish, 3 per cent 27li Ditto, consolid a t e d . .............. ... ....., French, 5 Greek Bond s , 18 25, 5 per cent. Exchange per cent. ............ li, ...„,c,, Mexican, 5 per cent French, 31. -- -C. p _er cent . 50:- Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825 28% Dutch, 2% per cent. ................ 004 Peruvian, 1825, 0 per cent Ditto, 5 per cent. .... ........... 1 ‘TiI. ( C L O SING PRICE OF SHARES.—(THIS DA Y)• Mr ningham and Derby Railway iiristol and Exeter Railway ... ....... Eastern Counties Rail wa y London and Brighton R a il w a y London and Bir m i ng h am R ailway Mato Quarter Shares ... 16 :9, Landon and Gre enw i c h It a i lwaya London and S ou th ampton Railway 30% , London and Southampton (New) London and Croydo n R a il way London Grand Junction R a il way, . Manohester and Leeds Hallway Northern and Eastern Railway , 6s North Midland Railw a y National Loan Fund ..... ...................... ......... - 3 __, SILVER TEA AND COFT,:.EE sERVICES- - ; T. COX SAVORY, 47, Cr.:rnhill, London (Seven Doors from Graceehureh-street), for seleet':on an elegant and most ex t l er . l — assortment of Si.tver Tea S';',rvices, varying in price from 15_,; p 3 r o e i t , iy th f e or se t r h ‘ e i: is o; l43 T , Teapot., Sugar Basin, and Milk Ewer. 11 x , ground:lb:tor, and first: second, and third floors, are fitted ‘vith D of ra i v, ) is given grafi!, SAVORY, Goldsmith, Watchmaker, and Silversmith, 470 C" hill, London. l i a n t so an a d mi Pl a ate li d ,t G o o f od p s r , ic a e n s d . a I:ii:a.unPnleiliice_t , 3s. TEAS at WHOLESALE PRICES, in Quantities not. Black as. less than One Po un d. , 6d., 3s. 10d. , 4s. , Small Leaf Gunpowder, As. B d. 4s. 6d., s s. Cocoa 9d. per lb., or per cwt. 785. Young Hyso n , 4 s. 4 d ., 41. Bd. Chocolate 10d. per lb., or per Imperial Gunpowder, ss. 4d. cwt. fps. T. G. MANSELL and CO., Wholesale Tea-dealers, Z 13uck lersbury , Chezpsi(f.e. ' -.... --.-..„............ ~. --- MARRIED. On the 15th inst., at St. Marylebone Church, Arthur Martin a'Beckett, Esq., youngest son of Wm. a'Beckett, Esq., of Golden square, to Emma Louisa, eldest daughter of the late Marsharn. Elwin, Esq., of Thirning, in the county of Norfolk. London: Printed and PubliFbed by MURDO YOUNG, of 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the county of 15, 1838.